"Forced" bass solo request...

[Matt Till]

Don't worry, upon listening to the TB sampler... there are some TBers who like to solo. So you aren't alone.

I do practice soloing... I don't know why. I think it's just to do something different, I mostly riff though.

 

[Intrepid]

lol there was a mini-performance (jazz) at my school and the guitarist just starts an improv and goes a little overboard. riff after riff after riff obviously just showing off until he started repeating himself. then his solo started to wind down as he ran out of things to play. as he struggled through a few half-hearted riffs he looked at the bassist with classic musician's "help me" look. so then the bassist cuts in with some mad chops on his own solo.

oooh guitarist gets served a slice of humble pie! how does it feel?

Similar story: HS Jazz band. I suck at walking. The piano looses the chord structure, the whole band is on the brink of falling apart. Trumpet is done with solo, everybody looks at me completely lose. I try to emphasize the root, but it doesn't work cuz I suck at walking. I say **** it, and break into a bass solo. It sucked, but when I finished we just started playing the melody again and finished. I was a hero despite the fact that the solo wanked.

I don't mind soloing, but I hate when there's no transition. Some idiot comes up, "Hey lets do a bass solo."
"Um, okay."
I get to playing and suddenly the whole band just drops off the face of the earth.

 

[eldave777]

I usually stick with the idea that one bass solo is one too many, but if put in that situation I usually play ... If I only had a brain (from the Wizard of Oz) or the looney toones theme.

 

[GSPLBASSDC]

I usually stick with the idea that one bass solo is one too many, but if put in that situation I usually play ... If I only had a brain (from the Wizard of Oz) or the looney toones theme.

LOL!!! I just played them in my head...too funny

aw c'mon...a lot of you did as well!!

 

[timo]

Get the start of Stu Hamm's Country Music down. Instant bass solo that keeps people entertained for a while. I'm learning the Super Mario theme like Jean Baudin plays it on the video on his website. Check it out.

 

[wilser]

just do the stanley clarke thing, take 4-6 notes and play them in sequence very fast ascending chromatically, do that for 4 bars and you're done!

 

[Hambone]

When I'm asked to solo, I just call BassMonkee...

(Gard understands)

 

[Gard]

When I'm asked to solo, I just call BassMonkee...

(Gard understands)

Having been utterly destroyed more than one time by him at GTG's yeah, I sure do.




(...you left an "e" off, and the "b" is lower case! Don't want the bassmonkeee upset with ya, he might start flingin' poo! )